SS outline topic 7

Clan

Group of families with a common ancestor

Silk Road

Series of trade routes that crossed Asia and connected China to the Mediterranean Sea

Serf

A peasant who is legally bound to live and work on land owned by a lord

Tsar

Ruler of imperial Russia; from the Latin Caesar or emperor

Westernize

To adopt western ideas, technology, and culture

Inflation

General increase in prices

Model

Example; pattern of behavior to be followed

Adopt

To make use of a new tool or idea

Ideas as well as goods spread along the Silk Road by _______ sharing ideas as they traveled

Traders

Development followed soon after the Mongol invasion of the __________ because Russian princes fell under control of Mongol rulers

Kievan Rus

_________________ changed Russia by expanding Russia’s territory

Catherine the Great

Russia fell behind many European countries in the late 1800s because they were to dependent on ___________

Agriculture

Bolshiveks

Russian political group that called for worker control of Russia in October 1917; grew into the Communist party of the Soviet Union

Communism

A political and economic system in which government owns all property and makes all economic decisions

Collectivization

A shift of control from an individual or company to a group called a collective

Cold War

Period of hostility during the mid late 1900s between the US and its allies and the Soviet Union and its allies on the other side